leave no history behind

Dear Principle

It has come to my attention that in many high schools some of the history that is presented to the students is considered forbidden or very controversial. Such being topics like nanking massacre, or in relation to the U.S the Bataan Death March after the surrender of U.S forces located in the Philippines. Even Russia's  genocide and the massacres that spanned the century. whether you  wish to deny that these events and others like it occurred  or accept it is to your discretion, you should not forbid this information from high school students  because truth be told these things did happen and there should be no denying it. We as students are at the age of which we can understand  the event and why it happened, if these events are simply forgotten or denied.  then how can we prevent them from happening again? because isn't that why we study  history to learn from the mistakes of our ancestors and try to prevent this from happening again. If the goal is simply to deny the teaching of this information then I can almost guarantee that these events will be replicated and maybe on  a far worse scale than previously .

holocaust prevention?

in reality I believe that we should get involved in the prevention of genocide or the intervene it since it is a violation of basic human rights. In addition allowing certain nations independence such as Sudan which with the current government would not allow. In addition we the U.S Support the UN united nations which are the people that deal in this type of thing, so we need to promote the UN to do this . Sadly I also believe that an individual country cannot help them even if the people  wanted to, because of the lack  businesses interest in the area's  which was one of the causes for the U.S being located in Afghanistan, which we thought was to protect the people there but it was in reality only for the resources. In these areas the companies that supported the government have no interest and little money to be made  in these areas, therefore I believe they will not provide support, in the end it comes down to one thing greed.

Cinderella Man

Starts of with Bull dog Braddock on his way to become the heavy weight champion of the world

Then Suffers from a Broken right hand and begins a losing streak that would span years

shortly after his massive defeat by Lewis the Great Depression began

After he had fought several times against some other up and comers only to down played

leads to the loss of his boxing licence

Is then works at the docks to support the family

Where he met on of his friends \

With the work there his left arm strengthens

At some point his wife had sent away  their children so they may be able to survive

Received much of their food from the Bread lines

In response James starts seeking money to get them back

Ends up at the last place many people would believe his old employer

 Then finds work back as a boxer and wins the first fight back

Breaking his losing streak

He discovers that one of his dear friends that he had met at the docks was in a Hoverville

His friend later dies, but would haunt James wife for times to come

When he reaches the match with Max Baer He discovers and is warned about him even mocked by him

When he leaves for the match his wife discovers at the church hundreds of people praying for him

She decides to visit him

 Finally the epic battle of James J. Braddock Vs. Max Baer

James J. Braddock wins  

James J. Braddock fight map

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Sacco & Vanzetti

In the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti I determined that even before their trial they are guilty by the name of Sacco looks like the most promising culprit due to his “interesting history of being the anarchist going to defend an Italian murderer in trial.  before his beginning of getting involved with one of the anarchist groups  this one known as the Circolo di Studi Sociali which  he joined in 1913 and even helped fund some of their anarchist activities and had written several "interesting" articles in the cults paper. Which I believe this is key point that he was willing openly oppress the government of the United States. shortly after several of them including Vanzetti made haste towards Mexico to escape the draft or conscription of World War 1

In Venisetti’s case they were similar to Sacco’s he to had shown discontent with his life especially after the loss of his mother to which he may have caused him to turn  to reading several anarchist newspapers supported by Sacco. Then moved to Plymouth in 1913 for similar reason as Sacco then continued then we believes that he had continued his anarchist activates with the other participants in the group. Shortly after his arrival in Plymouth he along with the others moved onto Mexico to also escape the draft. Were he took up many old professions but at the same time continued to support the anarchist group. For some unknown strange reason when he returned to the United States in 1917 had registered to become a U.S citizen. In my own opinion it seems as though he may be the most innocent of the duo since he wants citizenship in the U.S. but unfortunately form the data gathered, he held on to an old quote from early on “The blood of martyrs is the seed of liberty”. Which lead’s many us of us to believe that he thinks liberty is an abomination and suggests that he wishes to change the government especially when engaging with the anarchist group.

From eyewitness accounts it seems that several people had seen the crime they had committed, at first there were identifications but the participants that thought that Sacco was one of the bandits but failed to confirm it. This changed in the trail after several of the witness had in trail confirmed Sacco as a culprit a very strange twist which might have been the result of some form of persuasion form some unknown source to have executed.

At the crime scene the local police had discovered several bullet casings the most interesting was the bullet number 3 which several experts claimed was from Sacco’s colt auto weapon which matched the rifling in Sacco’s weapon barrel and being reported him as missing from his day job at the 3-K shoe factory, and was caught several times for lying to police an what stood out the most was the denial of the murder weapon which was clearly his. In the case of Vanzetti there were eyewitnesses to identify him as a syndicate to the crime. For example he was seen in the area of the shooting in a black vehicle suspected criminal transportation. And lying about the origin of his 32. Cal which is claimed to be a .38 cal handgun from which is was obtained from a friend that he would not name or reveal his purpose in

For which I believe that both of these men are to be accused of the crime after both showing a motive and a willing to commit the crime and both being unable to prove their proposed reason  

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Acrostic poem

Prohibiting the sale of alcohol
Reversing new ideals
Opposing Alcoholism
Heightening the need for Alcohol
In creating Massive
Bootlegging empires
Inciting a new source of alcohol
Treating the law like there is non
Inviting crime
On the  verge of incredible profit
Non reject their services when Boose is forbidden

Roaring Twenties
Opposing old Ideals
And accepting the new
Raving on the new found wealth
Interest rates dwindle
Heightening Profit
Generating an unpayable debt

Time continues  from 1920
With purchasing on the rise with the
 Evolution of credit and installment plans
Never suspecting that
Time was not on their side
Inevitably this this prosperity was limited
Evolving from celebration to
Suuffering and poverty

Science and religion

I believe that we should be allowed to study both because the original creationism was that the lord had created the universe. On the other hand evolutionism had much more evidence leaning in its direction like change over time and creatures evolving from others. But in the end something had to create the particles that made up the living being that evolutionism came from so I am really in the middle. The only problem I have with creationism is the fact that I can not be physically proved only stories and revelations. while evolutionism seems more likely since it can be seen in everyday life if you observe  closely.

topic 7 study sheet

 United States History

Mr. Michael Meechin

Formative Assessment

Topic.07 Study Concepts

The following concepts will be on the Topic.07 Formative Assessment. It is the student’s responsibility to prepare for this assessment. Information could come from in class activities, discussion and readings.

For your benefit the definition of concept has been provided below:

con·cept [kon-sept]

–noun

1. a general notion or idea; conception.

2. an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct.

The Scopes Trial

Was the trial criticizing the teaching of evolution instead of creationism?

Prohibition

Time period beginning in the 1920’s were the sale and production of alcohol was restricted

Flappers

Women who violated old ideals and were commonly associated with short hair short dress

Economic Issues (1920s)

During the 1920’s known as the roaring 20s the problems were with credit and at the time companies were known to fake their actually stock value. And towards the end of the 1920’s many business received less and less investments

Dust Bowl

Resulted from new machinery and over farming the land and forgetting the importance of crop rotation

Agriculture Issues

With the new machines to enhance the speed of farming.  Farmers neglected to use crop rotation

Which at the time did not help due to the drought?

Immigration Policies (1920s)

Based off the ethnic groups from the 1890 census which limited 2% of each ethnic group

Nativism

Refers to opposition to foreigners or immigrants

Significant Literary Works (1920s)

How the other half lives, the jungle,  and unsafe at any speed

The Great Migration

Was the migration of African Americans from the south to the northern parts of the U.S

Harlem Renaissance

Was the spike and appearance of African American culture on public scale resulting in the creation of Jazz and many other works including literature artistry.

Sacco and Vanzetti

Were convicted of crimes against the U.S for being anarchist and even foreigners during he period called the red scare

 Period during the Bolshevik revolution which saw a rise in the number of communist supporters worldwide and the U.S was very afraid of these commies and anarchists overthrowing the government or just taking power. Which also resulted in huge discrimination towards foreigners accusing them of being commies or anarchists take Sacco and venssti for example?

Labor Issues (1920s)

Majority of people were spending and there inevitably there was less effort into paying off debts and people living off credit  

public enemies

during the course of the presentations of the various gangsters I was astonished how interconnected the gangsters were even cooperating with each other when commiting their crimes. how they affected the U.S when their actions sprung up by the prohibition would form the federal burea of intelligence. After my groups presentations it was interesting to understand that they openly were more powerful than the law and in the earlier days the police dept lacked the firepower of the gangsters posessed such as full auto weapons. which gave the gangsters a great advantage over the police who were armed with the only handguns and a few shotguns.